Search results for "Persia"

Rome re-imagined : twelfth-century Jews, Christians and Muslims encounter the eternal city

2011

This collection examines the image of Rome through Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and Persian descriptions of the eternal city. Placing the twelfth-century renaissance into a Mediterranean context. The city of Rome is revealed as a multi-vocal object of desire and a contested ideal.

Towards a cross-cultural assessment of binge-watching : Psychometric evaluation of the “watching TV series motives” and “binge-watching engagement an…

2020

International audience; In view of the growing interest regarding binge-watching (i.e., watching multiple episodes of television (TV) series in a single sitting) research, two measures were developed and validated to assess binge-watching involvement (``Binge-Watching Engagement and Symptoms Questionnaire'', BWESQ) and related motivations (``Watching TV Series Motives Questionnaire'', WTSMQ). To promote international and cross-cultural binge-watching research, the present article reports on the validation of these questionnaires in nine languages (English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Hungarian, Persian, Arabic, Chinese). Both questionnaires were disseminated, together with additional …

Evaluation and comparison of satellite precipitation estimates with reference to a local area

2011

Precipitation is one major variable for many applications. Satellite retrieval systems, raingauge network and radar systems are complement to each other in terms of their coverage and capability of monitoring precipitation. Satellite rainfall estimates systems produce data with global coverage that can provide information in areas for which data from other sources are unavailable.Without referring to ground measurement, satellite-based estimates can be bias. Although some gauged adjusted satellite precipitation products are developed, an effective way of integrating multi-sources of precipitation information is still a challenge. In this study we select a specific area in Sicily (Italy) hav…

Le "droghe cardiache" nel succedersi dei secoli.

2003

Plants were the first medicines used by men. From the 16th to the 18th century, the unavailability of medicines having a sure therapeutic effect was the cause of a high death rate, even in the cardiological field. As a consequence of this, the researchers of the 19th century focused their studies and research on same plants, that were considered having therapeutic effects on some cardiac pathologies. The results of the studies of the 19th century are still the starting point for new research about cardiac therapeutic medicines. In this paper the authors explain the main historical events concerning the medicines used in cardiology, from ancient times to the dawn of our times.

Elimination of in vitro bacterial contaminants in shoot cultures of ‘MRS 2/5’ plum hybrid by the use of Melia azedarach extracts

2008

The antimicrobial activity of leaf and callus extracts of Melia azedarach was tested on in vitro shoot cultures of the peach rootstoch 'MRS 2/5' (Prunus cerasifera × Prunus spinosa) that were heavily contaminated with Sphingomonas paucimobilis (Sp) and Bacillus circulans (Bc). The extracts were filter-sterilised and added at 0%, 1%, 5%, 10% and 20% to a modified Murashige and Skoog proliferation medium previously autoclave-sterilised. Up to about 17% shoots died with 10-20% extract, except for Sp-contaminated shoots, whose survival was reduced to 50% after treatment with 20% extract. No shoots died with 1% to 5% supplement. The undiluted leaf extract showed bactericidal activity on plated S…

Tajikistan: Language Situation

2006

Tajikistan, an independent Central Asian state since 1991, has Tajik, a variety of Persian, as its national language. Turkic-speaking groups, mainly Uzbeks, make up one fourth of the population. Eastern Iranian languages are still spoken in Tajikistan. Current efforts include the replacement of Russian by Tajik as the language of government and higher education as well as the reduction of Russian and Uzbek elements in Tajik.

Preservation of cultural heritage via education of children, utilizing visual communication: Persepolis as a case of study

2018

Focusing on the next generations as the owners of the heritage, development of the educational approach for children is an important issue which would assist the preservation of cultural affairs. Provision of the possibilities by which children can get familiar with their cultural treasures would support the cultural sustaining and maintaining approaches of the society while this chain would deliver the cultural values more effectively. Among several approaches, visual communication as the unique language which can be understood and utilized by every nation has been considered as an educational approach for children to promote their knowledge on the value of cultural heritage. Considering t…

Elementi di grammatica dell'iraniano antico (avestico e antico persiano)

2016

Sotto la denominazione di ‘iranico antico’ vengono nel testo indicate due antiche lingue iraniche: l’avestico e l’antico persiano, che costituiscono due delle lingue indo-europee di più antica attestazione. Le lingue iraniche sono tradizionalmente classificate in orientali e occidentali. All’ interno di questo schema, l’avestico è considerato una lingua iranica orientale. Questa distinzione, tuttavia, è troppo limitativa per l’avestico perché, all ’epoca in cui questo era parlato, gli sviluppi linguistici che più tardi distingueranno le lingue iraniche occidentali da quelle orientali non erano ancora avvenuti. Certo, l'avestico non è sicuramente l’antico persiano: in questo senso, ‘oriental…

The Royal Prerogative redefined : parliamentary debate on the role of the British Parliament in large-scale military deployments, 1982-2003

2014

Investigating the effectiveness of a digital game-based task on the acquisition of word knowledge

2020

This study investigates the probable effect of a digital game-based vocabulary learning (DGBVL) task on the acquisition of some components of a word knowledge framework. In so doing, 124 Persian speakers (56 males and 68 females) were randomly assigned to either a control or an experimental group. The experimental group participants completed a DGBVL task for acquiring ten low-frequent inanimate object names, or lexical nouns, by playing a commercial adventure game. The control group participants practiced the same words in a fill-in-the-blank vocabulary acquisition exercise. In brief, first, all participants sat for a word-checklist and a proficiency test; next, they completed their tasks,…